Some Bugs Have As Much Protein As Beef

A 2015 study in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition sought to answer the question: what's more nutritious for you, bugs or traditional meats? They used two nutrient profiling systems to test the foods, and found that insects and meat were roughly equal-but only if you aren't considering vitamins and minerals. When you add those to the mix, then bugs (specifically, crickets, palm weevil larvae, and mealworms) beat beef and chicken by a significant amount.